The Santa Cruz County, California, JDAI developed an objective screening process to detain only high-risk offenders, engaged families in assessment and intervention, created culturally responsive alternatives, and established community-based detention for low - and medium-risk youths and wrap around services that could be delivered in the community at day treatment sites.

Initially, as the New York Times reported, the general was supposedly recommending three possibilities: a low figure of 10,000-15,000 ( "a high-risk option"), an in-between figure of 25,000 ( "a medium-risk option"), and a top figure of 45,000 ( "a low-risk option").

In a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Monetary Economics they show that spreads on low - to medium-risk corporate bonds, particularly those with 15 or more years until maturity, predicted changes in the economy phenomenally well, forecasting the ups and downs in both hiring and production a year before they occurred.